CONTENTS. Lesson 3. Faults of Indention: Indenting Every Sentence Faults of Indention: Indentions too Few . 30 t COMPOSITION-RHETORIC. CHAPTER I. EXTERNAL FORM OF THE PARAGRAPH. LESSON 1. The Sentence-Group. THERE are two ways in which we may write an essay or any other kind of composition. One way is to write it sentence by sentence. A person who composes in this way usually begins writing before he has given his subject very much consideration. A sentence comes by chance into his mind. He traces it on the paper before him. The first sentence suggests a second, which also he writes down. The second suggests a third, the third a fourth, and so on to the end of the composition. This is one way, and a common way, of composing, but it is not a good way. A better way is to compose, not sentence by sentence, but sentence-group by sentence-group. When a writer composes in this way, he does not begin with a single sentence, but with a series or train of sentences. Before putting pen to paper he thinks out carefully the topics on which he means to write, and arranges them in the order in which he means to treat them. Then as soon as he takes up his |